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The Action Plan represents a renewed push to strengthen continental ties among the three countries, and establishes climate change as a key policy driver for reducing GHG emissions from the oil and gas sector...

On November 22, 2015, Premier Rachel Notley announced Alberta's new climate change plan ("Plan").

Despite opposition from industry groups and provinces, the Government of Canada is moving forward with a comprehensive plan to address plastic pollution in the long term.

Successful cleantech ventures often bring together different industry and professional sectors.

As reported in our earlier blog, British Columbia (BC) Premier Christy Clark appointed a Climate Leadership Team in May 2015 to provide advice and recommendations to government for its new Climate Leadership Plan.

In the fall of 2019, the Alberta Court of Appeal (the Court) released its fifth procedural decision in Alberta's Reference re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (the Reference).

In a 3‐0 decision, the Ontario Divisional Court has upheld the reasoning of the Environmental Review Tribunal (the "ERT" or "Tribunal") that innocent landowners can be forced to clean up pollution on their property caused by others.

In the highly anticipated Reference re Impact Assessment Act, 2023 SCC 23 the majority (5-2) of the Supreme Court of Canada...

On November 29, 2018, the Government of Ontario released its proposed Made-in-Ontario Environment Plan (the "Plan").

In July 2010, the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), of which Quebec is a partner, published detailed operational rules for the cap-and-trade system it wished to adopt.

In late 2016, Québec became the first province in Canada to introduce a zero-emission vehicle ("ZEV") mandate through legislation.

The Environmental Management and Protection Act, 2010 came into force in Saskatchewan on June 1, 2015 in conjunction with The Saskatchewan Environmental Code.

The Environmental Management and Protection Act, 2010 ("EMPA 2010") came into force in Saskatchewan on June 1, 2015 in conjunction with The Saskatchewan Environmental Code (the "Code").

In the Supreme Court of Canada decision of Annapolis Group Inc. v Halifax Regional Municipality, 2022 SCC 36 [Annapolis], the Court clarified the test for a "constructive expropriation".

Energy East, when all is said and done, will serve as a fascinating case study for many decades to come.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is interesting as a case study of a CO2 mitigation technology that maintains considerable political and fiscal support even though its long-term economic viability is dependent on high carbon prices and even though its implementation will in many cases require that U.S. states and Canadian provinces enact new legislation and regulations.

How are major oil spill claims handled in the US? For a fascinating glimpse across the border, Enbridge-consent-judgment is a copy of the multimillion dollar consent order between the State of Michigan and Enbridge over the billion dollar, three-million-litre oil spill into wetlands and the Kalamazoo River in 2010.

The Ministry of Transportation ("MTO") is taking a closer look at what motivates the decisions Ontarians make about how they travel from city to city.